12232141

User Equipment Monitoring Capability for Multiple Slot Physical Downlink Control Channel Monitoring

PublishedFebruary 18, 2025
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1. A user equipment (UE) for wireless communication, comprising: one or more memories; and one or more processors, coupled to the one or more memories, configured to: transmit a first indication of a first physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) monitoring capability for a first subcarrier spacing, the first indication indicating support for multi-slot PDCCH monitoring, a span of three consecutive symbols within a slot for a monitoring occasion associated with the multi-slot PDCCH monitoring, and a first gap between spans selected from a plurality of gaps; transmit a second indication of a second PDCCH monitoring capability for a second subcarrier spacing, the second indication indicating the span of three consecutive symbols within a slot for a monitoring occasion associated with the multi-slot PDCCH monitoring, and a second gap between spans, the second gap being one of the plurality of gaps; and receive a PDCCH monitoring configuration that is based at least in part on the first PDCCH monitoring capability or the second PDCCH monitoring capability.

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2. The UE of claim 1, wherein the span of three consecutive symbols comprises a span of three consecutive symbols in a first three symbols of each slot of multiple consecutive slots associated with the multi-slot PDCCH monitoring.

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3. The UE of claim 1, wherein the first indication further indicates an amount of time between consecutive PDCCH monitoring windows and a number of slots to be included in each PDCCH monitoring window.

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4. The UE of claim 3, wherein the amount of time between two of the consecutive PDCCH monitoring windows indicates a minimum amount of time between a first slot of a first PDCCH monitoring window and a first slot of a second PDCCH monitoring window when the first PDCCH monitoring window and the second PDCCH monitoring window are consecutive in a time domain.

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5. The UE of claim 1, wherein the PDCCH monitoring configuration is associated with a PDCCH candidate limit or a control channel element (CCE) limit, and wherein the PDCCH candidate limit or the CCE limit is defined for a PDCCH monitoring window.

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6. The UE of claim 1, wherein the PDCCH monitoring configuration is associated with a PDCCH candidate limit or a control channel element (CCE) limit, and wherein the PDCCH candidate limit or the CCE limit is defined for the span.

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7. The UE of claim 1, wherein the one or more processors, to receive the PDCCH monitoring configuration, are configured to: receive an indication of one or more PDCCH monitoring occasions, wherein each of the one or more PDCCH monitoring occasions are included in three consecutive symbols.

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8. The UE of claim 1, wherein a position of the span in the slot is fixed for each slot of multiple consecutive slots associated with the PDCCH monitoring configuration.

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9. The UE of claim 1, wherein the first gap is 4 symbols or 7 symbols, and the second gap is 7 symbols.

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10. The UE of claim 1, wherein the first subcarrier spacing is 480 kHz and the second subcarrier spacing is 960 kHz.

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11. A network node for wireless communication, comprising: one or more memories; and one or more processors, coupled to the one or more memories, configured to: receive, from a user equipment (UE), a first indication of a first physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) monitoring capability for a first subcarrier spacing, the first indication indicating support for multi-slot PDCCH monitoring, a span of three consecutive symbols within a slot for a monitoring occasion associated with the multi-slot PDCCH monitoring, and a first gap between spans selected from a plurality of gaps; receive a second indication of a second PDCCH monitoring capability for a second subcarrier spacing, the second indication indicating the span of three consecutive symbols within a slot for a monitoring occasion associated with the multi-slot PDCCH monitoring, and a second gap between spans, the second gap being one of the plurality of gaps; and transmit, to the UE, a PDCCH monitoring configuration that is based at least in part on the first PDCCH monitoring capability or the second PDCCH monitoring capability.

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12. The network node of claim 11, wherein the first indication further indicates an amount of time between consecutive PDCCH monitoring windows and a number of slots to be included in each PDCCH monitoring window.

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13. The network node of claim 12, wherein the amount of time between two of the consecutive PDCCH monitoring windows indicates a minimum amount of time between a first slot of a first PDCCH monitoring window and a first slot of a second PDCCH monitoring window when the first PDCCH monitoring window and the second PDCCH monitoring window are consecutive in a time domain.

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14. The network node of claim 11, wherein the PDCCH monitoring configuration is associated with a PDCCH candidate limit or a control channel element (CCE) limit, and wherein the PDCCH candidate limit or the CCE limit is defined for a PDCCH monitoring window.

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15. The network node of claim 11, wherein the PDCCH monitoring configuration is associated with a PDCCH candidate limit or a control channel element (CCE) limit, and wherein the PDCCH candidate limit or the CCE limit is defined for the span.

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16. The network node of claim 11, wherein the one or more processors, to receive the indication of the PDCCH monitoring capability, are configured to: receive a first PDCCH monitoring capability associated with a subcarrier spacing and a second PDCCH monitoring capability associated with the subcarrier spacing.

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17. The network node of claim 11, wherein the one or more processors, to receive the indication of the PDCCH monitoring capability, are configured to: receive a first PDCCH monitoring capability associated with a first subcarrier spacing and a second PDCCH monitoring capability associated with a second subcarrier spacing.

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18. A method of wireless communication performed by a user equipment (UE), comprising: transmitting a first indication of a first physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) monitoring capability for a first subcarrier spacing, the first indication indicating support for multi-slot PDCCH monitoring, a span of three consecutive symbols within a slot for a monitoring occasion associated with the multi-slot PDCCH monitoring, and a first gap between spans selected from a plurality of gaps; transmitting a second indication of a second PDCCH monitoring capability for a second subcarrier spacing, the second indication indicating the span of three consecutive symbols within a slot for a monitoring occasion associated with the multi-slot PDCCH monitoring, and a second gap between spans, the second gap being one of the plurality of gaps; and receiving a PDCCH monitoring configuration that is based at least in part on the first PDCCH monitoring capability or the second PDCCH monitoring capability.

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19. The method of claim 18, wherein the first indication further indicates an amount of time between consecutive PDCCH monitoring windows and a number of slots to be included in each PDCCH monitoring window.

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20. The method of claim 19, wherein the amount of time between two of the consecutive PDCCH monitoring windows indicates a minimum amount of time between a first slot of a first PDCCH monitoring window and a first slot of a second PDCCH monitoring window when the first PDCCH monitoring window and the second PDCCH monitoring window are consecutive in a time domain.

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February 18, 2025

Inventors

Wooseok NAM
Jing SUN
Tao LUO
Xiaoxia ZHANG
Hari SANKAR

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